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Looking ahead, seeing what is ahead for how this space will serve our family. New stuff to come, changes, improvements. It was also a pretty major undertaking and loads of work to take on, but I cannot tell you how much it has paid off. I love the new site. I love that it coincides with this time of year because I start to lay out my summer calendar and it most definitely includes a few mini break[...]

Monday's Word of the Day from Dictionary.com:
raconteur \rack-on-TUR\, noun:
One who excels in telling stories and anecdotes.
This one is pretty obvious- ARAIYA.
There is a constant verbal dialog streaming from her mouth, regardless if anyone is around to hear. I believe she epitomizes raconteur in every possible way. The still photos fail to capture the true aspect in which this word applies, [...]

The Weekly Photo Challenge word from the Dictionary.com Monday Word of the Day:
cavil \KAV-uhl\, intransitive verb:
1. To raise trivial or frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
transitive verb:
1. To raise trivial objections to.
noun:
1. A trivial or frivolous objection.
Yesterday marked the first in a series of hot days we are set to have over the weekend here in Seattle[...]

The Weekly Photo Challenge Word of the Day for this week's theme:
fustian \FUHS-chuhn\,
noun:
1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
2. An inflated style of writing or speech; pompous or pretentious language.
adjective:
1. Made of fustian.
2. Pompous; ridiculously inflated; bombastic.
Most of today was spent in the realms of Microsoft [...]

If you notice, my Weekly Photo Challenge post is a day late. Yes, it has been that kind of a week. Fitting to the weeks word, none the less. So better late than never, I guess, as the challenge theme culminates the state of affairs this week. From Dictionary.com's Monday Word of the Day:
maelstrom \MAYL-struhm\, noun:
1. A large, powerful, or destructive whirlpool.
2. Something resembling a maels[...]

Monday's Word of the Day from Dictionary.com for our Weekly Photo Challenge is:
pin money \pin money\, noun:
1. An allowance of money given by a husband to his wife for private and personal expenditures.
2. Money for incidental expenses.
3. A trivial sum.
This week's word was a little odd in that it was both timely and inapplicable at the same time. A year ago we were treating our money and fin[...]

This week's word for the Weekly Photo Challenge from Dictionary.com's Monday Word of the Day:
pin money \pin money\, noun:
1. An allowance of money given by a husband to his wife for private and personal expenditures.
2. Money for incidental expenses.
3. A trivial sum.
What do you think?

This week's photo challenge, from Monday's word of the day at Dictionary.com:
woebegone \WOE-bee-gon\, adjective:
1. Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.
2. Being in a sorry condition; dismal-looking; dilapidated; run-down.
I know, I know. It doesn't seem to fit. It needs context.
Every Thursday evening we have our small group over to share a meal together and d[...]

Week 5 or our Weekly Photo Challenge from Dictionary.com's Monday Word of the Day:
plethora \PLETH-uh-ruh\, noun:
1. An abnormal bodily condition characterized by an excessive amount of blood in the system.
2. Excess; superabundance.
This week's work I actually know, often even a part of my vocabulary.There were so many things this week which could have qualified for plethora, so much that c[...]

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